| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Incubate.[Websters]
2. To be indurated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have covered or smouldered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be incised. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have nurtured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be indisposed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have simmered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have nursed or nourished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have meditated or deliberated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have hatched.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb incubate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (incubate) | 1. Grow under conditions that promote development.[Wordnet]. 2. Sit on (eggs).[Wordnet]. 3. Develop under favorable conditions, such as germs and bacteria.[Wordnet]. 4. Sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs".[Wordnet]. 5. To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: incubating, incubated, incubates, incubator, incubators, incubatingly and incubatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "INCUBATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Specialty Definition: incubate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To sit, as on eggs for hatching.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Administration | To maintain environmental conditions that are optimum for the growth of bacteria. For example, coliforms grow best when held at 37 C (98.6 F). (references) | ||
| Aerospace | To incubate is to artificially warm (and hatch eggs) by maintaining conditions similar to body heat. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions. 1975: Catherine Marshall, Adventures in Prayer, New York, Ballantine Books, December 1976, page 46 - Part of our problem in praying for our children, he suggested, is the time lage, the necessary slow maturation of our prayers. But that's the way of God's rhythm in nature. For instance, the hen must patiently sit on her eggs to incubate them before the baby chicks hatch. 1985: Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, New York, Vintage International, May 1992, page 3 - The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. 2004: A. J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World New York, Simon & Schuster, 2004, page 50 - The female cichlid fish are called "mouth breeders," which means they incubate eggs in their mouth. (references) | 2: [Verb] (transitive) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it. 1992: Sheila Davis, The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow, Cincinnati, Writer's Digest Books, 1992, page 96. - When you've got your theme-let the concept incubate. Walk around with it, sleep on it. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: incubate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Incubate (bird) | The word incubate in the context of birds refers to the development of the chick (embryo) within the egg and the constant temperature required for the development of it over a specific period. This in most species of bird is produced by body heat from the brooding parent, though several groups, notably the Megapodes, instead use geothermal heat or the heat generated from rotting vegetable material, effectively a giant compost heap. The Namaqua Sandgrouse of the deserts of southern Africa, needing to keep its eggs cool during the heat of the day, stands over them drooping its wings to shade them. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: INCUBATED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Incubated egg | Food & Agriculture | Eggs from the time of insertion in the incubator. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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